[MD] Chance

[David M]

>
>> In some sense we 'can' travel in time and I suspect that this fifth
>> dimensional aspect of our being is what produces consciousness. It is the
>> ability to remember the past and to project into the future that really
>> makes us, if not unique then 'special'. We can take various points of 
>> view
>> not only of social relationships and spatial relationships but of 
>> temporal
>> relationships. We are constantly interacting with these multifaceted
>> perspectives; processing them in parallel and constructing serial 
>> narratives
>> out of them.
>
> Yes, indeed. Somehow we as humans were freed from the trap of living only 
> in the
> present moment, like animals. That makes us special. To me this further 
> supports
> Pirsig's theory that evolution is towards freedom -- DQ's "only perceived
> good." (Lila, 9)
>
>

DM: A freedom to realise (understand and bring about) a greater range
of possibilities than those open to protons, rocks and amoeba. Realising
possibilities that have value/quality as best we can.